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The Guardian reports the National Security Agency is currently collecting the telephone records of millions of US customers of Verizon.

According to a 2010 Washington Post story, "Every day collection systems at the National Security Agency intercept and store 1.7 billion e-mails, phone calls and other types of communications." Theses communications are the result of both foreign and domestic spying.

This includes the complete contents of private emails, cell phone calls, and Google searches, as well as all sorts of personal data trails--parking receipts, travel itineraries, bookstore purchases, and other digital 'pocket litter.'" According to a "senior intelligence official" quoted in the story, the Utah facility will also be a vital tool in breaking encrypted codes.

This is conjecture, but I doubt they've discarded the list. I suspect instead theyve refined the technique by incorporating something along the lines of a google style algorithm to winnow down the list based on context.

-- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and good with ketchup. --

DHS has scrubbed the training manuals of those "insensitive" words like "radical islamic terrorists".
Their focus is on "rightwing extremists". They aren't looking for terrorists in mosques, they're searching tea party rallies.

-- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and good with ketchup. --

The Government is using a program which is code-named PRISM. They can watch you as you type.

According to the Post the National Security Agency and FBI are “tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading US Internet companies, extracting audio, video, photographs, e-mails, documents and connection logs that enable analysts to track a person’s movements and contacts over time.”

All of the biggest technology companies in America participate in PRISM, including Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, PalTalk, AOL, Skype, YouTube, and Apple. Dropbox is coming next, according to reports.

Originally Posted by robjones

Hard to catch bass if you're fishing for catfish.

DHS has scrubbed the training manuals of those "insensitive" words like "radical islamic terrorists".
Their focus is on "rightwing extremists". They aren't looking for terrorists in mosques, they're searching tea party rallies.

The NSA uses keywords to produce 51 percent certainty that a target is “foreign” or like you said it all depends on the keywords.

If you have not read it since high school, re-read the book "1984." The Thought Police are actively supporting Big Brother.

If you have a Kindle or other e-reader it is a free download. It is amazing how much of that story has come true. It just took a few years longer than Orwell imagined.

We are going in a modern feudalism looking like this: royalty (bank cartel), lords (wealthy), vassals (politicians), knights (executive branch), fiefs (multi national corporations and national corporations), and peasants (people).

NSA Whistleblower: Obama Took Down General Petraeus with Surveilance Program

William Binney, whistleblower and former NSA crypto-mathematician who served in the agency for decades, said the David Petraeus sex scandal was most likely exposed using illegal surveillance of his email.